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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1939
Page
27
Marketings were sharply cut midweek after a 50 cent price drop, sparking a modest price rebound by Wednesday that only returned prices to last Saturday's levels. Interior hog runs were unusually light late week, with 9,700 head Thursday and 10,400 Friday in Iowa and southern Minnesota.
Hog producers claim prices should rise as receipts decline this week and the market lags behind other commodities. The piece argues for orderly offerings and questions how to curb price drops without government control. Co op activity is shrinking, per Sam Thompson’s survey, complicating price stabilization.
A survey by Wallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead shows 56 percent of farm women oppose repeal while 20 percent favor it. Among men 43 percent oppose and 40 percent favor, with many undecided. Younger farmers under 25 oppose 55 percent. over 45 oppose 47 percent.
Special to The Gazette. McGREGOR Verni Schultz 42, buttermaker at the McGregor Farmers creamery, died Thursday evening after a heart attack at a stag party in Dubuque. He collapsed outside Melody Mill where a wrestling match drew 6000. Schultz, formerly at Postville, had been with the local creamery six years. His wife and five year old daughter survive.
Iowa reports total vocational agriculture enrollments above 19,000 across 168 departments this year. High school enrollments reach 6,801, with 11,476 farmers in evening classes and 1,464 in part-time programs among 52 areas. Corning Guthrie Center and Leon lead in high school cohort. 162 of 168 departments plan part-time or evening offerings.
Special to The Gazette notes straw berry Point and Calmar host evening school meetings for farmers. At Strawberry Point High School sessions start Oct 11 at 8 p.m. with topics on dairy and hog farming, farm outlook, soils and farm administration. Calmar sessions begin Oct 16 at 8 p.m. with a varied subjects list.
Coming farm auctions list events from October 7 in Anamosa for Herman J. Martin Duroc Jersey sale to October 12 in Lisbon for Geo L. Albright farm sale. Other sales include A F Aikin Son Duroc Jersey in Tipton and Atkinson Livestock Market in Atkinson with additional sales in Mount Vernon and Cedar Rapids area.
The Clinton county corn husking contest will be held Oct. 14 at 10 a.m. on the William Porter farm southeast of Malone. Entries close Oct. 10 at 5 p.m., limited to 10 contestants. Officials include Rex Casad chairing the event with county and local figures serving in roles from starter to weighers and referees.
The annual corn husking contest will be held October 17 on the John Bussard farm three miles southwest of Garnaville. Ed McNeil, chair of the husking committee, says the hybrid field is estimated at 100 bushels per acre. A strong finish is anticipated after the 1938 weather setback. Committee members include Mr. McNeil Oliver Eno and County Agent Grover Hahn.
Poweshiek county schedules a corn husking contest at the Carl farm in Montezuma on October 14 starting 10 15 a.m. The hybrid crop is expected to yield about 80 bushels per acre and the winner advances to the district meet in Clar ence on October 26.
Federal marketing service reports 47,300,000 pounds of Sudan grass seed produced in 1939, up from 42,300,000 in 1938 and 44,000,000 in 1937. Prices to growers averaged 1.70 per 100 pounds, with carryover seed on farms about 1,500,000 pounds and 5,293,652 pounds held by seedsmen and shippers.
Iowa livestock marketing cooperatives are a $33 million annual business but accounted for only about 10 percent of state livestock in 1936 37, far below the one fourth share in 1920 and 1924. Clayton Sioux counties lead in volume while a decline since 1925 is blamed on misaligned goals and shifting farmer needs.
A country woman frets over scales and weight after toying with diet notes. She jokes about unable to resist afternoon teas and bridge refreshments while preparing for a Farm Bureau tea, noting her skirt fits better yet fearing a misread.
The article examines farmers awareness of needs and the relative benefits of cooperative action versus alternative approaches. It discusses potential gains from cooperation, framing the issue within practical agricultural economies and community organization.
Lincoln based crop statistician A. E. Anderson reviewed 16 years of Nebraska farming and found drought and the agricultural conservation program have shifted practices. He reported 1939 oats at 28 percent, corn 336 percent of the 1923–32 average, alfalfa hay 39.4, potatoes 71.7, wheat 72, sugar beets 93.7, rye 130.6, barley 141.4, and grain sorghums 1,784.7.
Farmers near Oxford Junction report cribbing of corn begun and timothy sown late due to drought. Louis Straka east of town is constructing a large double corncrib for an elevator. Joe Tye, Sr. completed a similar crib this summer and has built an elevator and a new hoghouse.
Center Junction area auctioneer notes J B Schusen sale attracted 150 attendees with 41 boars averaging 34.60 dollars each. Top boars reached 75 dollars, gifts averaged 28.60, and several animals sold to buyers from Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin. Dense activity included two horses and various pieces of farm equipment sold at Crawfordsville nearby sale.
Mrs Phyllis Seymour of Fonda has been hired as home demonstration agent in Iowa county to replace Miss Francis Hettler who resigned to pursue postgraduate work at Ames. She starts duties Monday.
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